tas header??

[pr3pg4lyfe]

i was wondering if any on here has a tas header(from tasauto.com). i was wondering if it sounds good. im thinking about buying there header since they have some good quality stuff. does name brand really matter?? its not like ima b showing off my stuff only 2 ppl i really know. is buying a megan 4-2-1 header sound different then buying any other 4-2-1 header??

[Accord214]

Name brand = quality !

If u want something to last long then go for a brand name.

[YK86]

They all sound the same, and hp gains are probably similar too. But there is a difference in quality for sure. I've had (in chronological order) Pacesetter, DC Sports, and Megan on my car. The DC Sports was by far the best quality and they have the recessed rings to use the oem style gaskets at the manifold to downpipe and downpipe to cat connections (No leaks). Only reason I took it off was because the flexpipe broke.

For the same price as a flexpipe, I got the Megan but fitment was not that great, the #1 runner doesn't cross over to the #4 like the DC so it hits the A/C line at the compressor, gaskets are garbage, but price was cheap and SS looks ok. The Pacestter was something I got as soon as I bought the car but I wouldn't recommend it. Black paint burns right off so you need to spray it after/strip and paint before install or the piping rusts and looks worse than the oem manifold.

[deevergote]

TAS's header is probably about the same quality as their exhaust. Nothing fancy, but not junk.

Honestly, unless you need a CARB exemption, or you really want to make power, there's no reason not to get an inexpensive header. TAS is good, and they're a fantastic company. Megan is decent. OBX is also decent. DC and similarly priced headers are made very well, but you're paying more for the CARB label than anything else. Bisimoto, of course, is the ultimate... the only one worth spending a chunk of cash on.

[pr3pg4lyfe]

is obx good 4 our cars?? cuz all the civic ppl i know say obx is garbage. i saw on ebay a while ago they had a header for like 100 brand new. i asked around they all said that. i was like wtf?? isnt a header a header lol. das exactly y i need some accord friends mostly wit cbs

[deevergote]

OBX is nothing but a knockoff brand... just like Megan, and honestly, just like TAS. They are not carefully engineered for our cars. They're bent pipes with a collector. They won't give significant gains... any of them. That's why I say there's no reason to spend a lot of money on a header unless you're getting real gains (and Bisimoto is the only one that actually does that).

If you pay $100 for a header, you get what you pay for. It might last 5 years. It might last 2 years. If it lasts 2 years, you can just buy another one. I mean, $50 a year isn't bad!


Whatever you get, I would get some OEM Honda gaskets to replace what comes with them. Many of those cheapies have leaky gasket issues.